Word: droves
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boston broke up a pitchers' duel in the top of the sixth, scoring a pair of runs with a walk and three singles. George Scott smacked his 1700th career hit to drive in Carly Yastrzemski with the first run, and clutch-hitting Butch Hobson drove in Carlton Fisk with a single just minutes later...
...like seasons, Portland fans had waited in vain for Walton to become again the fierce-eyed force that once drove John Wooden's finest U.C.L.A. teams. They had waited for the 6-ft. 11-in. redhead to sweep the backboards of rebounds and to show them the best big-man's passing game in the history of the sport. But he burdened them with ramblings about FBI bugs in the woodwork. The Trail Blazers had counted on his size and strength to muscle them out of expansion-team doldrums and into the joyful world of N.B.A. contenders. Instead...
...including two unsatisfactories on his first two hourlies. A senior advisor was dispatched to counsel Smith. They got to talking and Smith said that he was having a bit of trouble commuting, that he was really taxing a friend of his, a teacher from Buckingham, Brown and Nichols who drove him to school everyday. The adviser told him to work harder and relax more...
...women's laughter and the insistent beat of an old Rolling Stones record. It spurred them on; they were in the right place. Walter started to climb the fence. When he reached the top one pant leg caught on a sharp point of metal. Just then a car drove by on the adjacent road. Its headlights caught poor Walter on the top of the fence struggling to get free. The light scared him. He jumped down inside the fence, ripping a large hole in his trouser cuff. Tom laughed uneasily and climbed over after the car had passed...
...crews battled bowball-to-bowball for half a mile, and at times the Crimson enjoyed a slight lead. But Yale drove by in the middle mile, and took a commanding length's lead into the last ninety strokes...